![]() ![]() Stewart’s writing is creative and his characters are natural. He enters a contest for gifted children and ends up a member of The Mysterious Benedict Society. The story itself is captivating, and bizarrely relatable barring the espionage and plot to take over the world… The story begins with Reynie, an intelligent orphan, who spends his days being tutored by Miss Perumal. The children actually sound like precocious children and the adults sound like adults. Stewart is a master of creating clever dialogue that works. The Mysterious Benedict Society was a refreshing change. ![]() Or when they try to be clever, they oversell it. ![]() The largest difficulty I encounter in the middle grade novel is that the author feels a need to dumb it down. THIS is the kind of middle grade novel I love to read. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |